Describes how developers can incorporate motion-sensor input into their apps.
Secure development of Metro style apps with HTML5
A whitepaper that describes secure development techniques for Metro style apps with HTML5 for Windows® operating systems.
Using the Windows App Certification Kit
Provides information about the Windows® ACK and its use in the various app certification programs for Windows operating systems.
Introduction to Background Tasks
Guidelines for developers using background tasks in their apps
Windows Assessment and Deployment Kit Release Notes & Windows Assessment Services User’s Guide
This document summarizes late-breaking information about this release of the Windows® Assessment and Deployment Kit (Windows ADK) for Windows Developer Preview. This includes known issues, workarounds, and other important information.
Windows and Windows Server Developer Preview Compatibility Cookbook
This document familiarizes developers with how to verify the compatibility of their programs with the new operating system and provides an overview of the few known compatibility issues in Windows Developer Preview and Windows Server Developer Preview.
2010 Information Worker Demonstration and Evaluation Virtual Machine (SP1)
This download contains a three Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Hyper-V Virtual Machine set for evaluating and demonstrating Office 2010, SharePoint 2010 and Project Server 2010.
Enable GPU Debugging in Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview
Script to Enable GPU Debugging in Microsoft Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Developer Preview
Windows Azure AppFabric SDK V1.5 – September 2011
Windows Azure AppFabric is a key component of the Windows Azure Platform. It includes three services: AppFabric Access Control, AppFabric Service Bus and AppFabric Caching Service.
Visual Studio Team Explorer Everywhere 11 Developer Preview
Developer Preview of the Eclipse plug-in and cross-platform command-line client for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11
Environmental Sustainability Architecture Guide
Optimizing Your Infrastructure for Sustainability
Collaboration
Collaboration describes how customers can use workspaces and portals to provide a productive collaboration environment.
Client Services
Client Services describes how customers should manage and maintain the client devices.
Customer Service Architecture Guide
Improving Customer Service
Enterprise Search
Enterprise Search describes how customers can use a robust enterprise search solution.
FY11 IO Data Sheet
Infrastructure Optimization
Datacenter Services
Data Center Services describes how customers should manage and maintain the servers, storage devices, network components and other hardware and software assets in the data center.
Enterprise Content Management
Enterprise Content Management describes how customers can manage the full lifecycle of information from inception to archive or deletion.
HPC Architecture Guide
Architecture guidance document
Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service 1.0 Migration Tool
This tool enables customers with Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control Service 1.0 namespaces to migrate them to Access Control Service 2.0.